STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1366

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1281

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1281 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to fund salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized under Chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees of agencies excluded from collective bargaining, including the State Ethics Commission, Office of the Auditor, Office of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and Office of the Ombudsman.

 

     The Office of the Ombudsman, Office of the Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, Hawaii State Ethics Commission, and Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter testified in support of this bill.

 

Legislative employees are currently excluded from collective bargaining.  Traditionally, these employees have been awarded salary increases from the Legislature when their counterparts in the executive and judicial branches of government belonging to Collective Bargaining Units (3), (4), and (13) have received pay raises through their negotiations. Your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these cost items, including salary increases and other cost adjustments, should continue to advance in the Legislature, should funds become available for these salary increases.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1281 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair